Reflection 1

I am going to revise my work by taking it step by step. I have realized that I tend to skip over revision due to me thinking too deeply into every word before I put it on paper that I see no point for revision.  This is because I take every step and I make it one to become more efficient, but this is not about efficiency. This is about creating an accessible experience to help others not another classroom assignment. Allowing myself to breathe and look at my research from a different perspective.

Some secondary sources I might need to explore to be able to bolster my previous research are looking at past ways cities and countries have improved their city by working with their citizens. Looking at places such as Switzerland and Finland who work extremely well with organization to improve their countries. I can also look within the United States. Places such as Moline who are increasing their nature and walkability by working with the city and seeing what the people and organizations want to improve the livability of day to day lives of citizens.

 I am writing to people who are used to not being heard. Communities who have had their voice silenced by their government for improvements needed in their cities for generation but have yet to be fixed. I will also be writing for organizations and governments who want to help with these voices that have being yelling so long that it has become strained and quiet. Showing them what these citizens want and ways they can go about improving the living conditions that they have lived in for far too long. This will impact my revision due to me having to make my writing and resources accessible to all different reading levels. I will also have to make any information gathered attainable from multiple sources such as online, paper, etc.

Reflection 2

I want my work to reach anyone who has felt like they haven’t been heard in their community. A lot of the times people who fight the hardest feel invisible if it seems their efforts are not making an impact. I want to show them someone is listening. Someone is watching their efforts, and they shall not go to waste. I want to show them their impact has left a mark not only in their communities, but also by onlookers who see their passion and fire to the point these watchers are set aflame the same way. I want to give them resources to further their advances to improve the place they call and consider home. I want them to be proud to call their neighborhood theirs with no shame or stigmatization.

Relevant stakeholders in my project are community organizations and local government. These are people who can completely reshape the lives of others. They can make decisions to ease the lives of the people whose fires have gotten so warm they have started to burn them from the inside out. Scars of abandonment written all over their faces could be treated by these stakeholders if they take the time to outreach and give these resources they have accumulated to the right audience.

Community organizations will shape my work by allowing me to connect them to people who truly need their resources. I will be able to show other ways to improve the hardships they have had to face due to not knowing or not having access to resources their community might provide but may be hidden from their usual trajectory. Community organizations will allow me to show them people care and will fight for them when they’re tired of vigorous fighting with government officials.